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Today we are celebrating Jacqueline as our Featured Stamper! Congratulations to Jacqueline!
Here are a few ways we can celebrate Jacqueline: Participate in the challenge and CASE a card from her gallery, comment on cards in her gallery, and/or Congratulate Jacqueline in the challenge post.
good news we are getting "real" internet at our house. ( the modem ships next monday)
we have had a Verizon hot spot for years and years ( we have a fiber line across town in our shop)
anyways... just curious we also got new cell phones and left android platforms behind. we are enjoying the conversion to iOS so the question I have is, does SCS have an App?
I am so behind in the challenges dept. Life has been a little series of avalanches lately. but, things are looking up. Our family will increase some day as our son popped the question and She Said Yes
I started linking up all the challenges from this last week, and as I was making the list my brain started combining them. ( and then I hit the back button on this reply box instead of the one where the challenges are...) Yeah, not enough coffee. but, an interesting side note seeing them all in a one sentence list made my brain start thinking of ways to combine them.
Do you do that? make a list and look at them that way or view the challenges on a day to day basis and do one of kinds of cards?
Me, I mostly do not combine them but, I am intrigued by those people who can do many challenges on the same project. I am thinking now that maybe they jot them all down on paper like a list to work off of.
I do combine somewhat and there is no method to my madness. If I can't create on a given day, I'll tell myself that maybe the WT will fit in with the MIX or F4A. I do tend to combine as the week progresses.
We had a car emergency and doctor appointments and reactions to prescriptions this week so .... sorry for my absence but I love the conversation that took place this week! Woohoo Stacy on real internet at home! Congrats on the engagement, exciting!
Agggh! Lydia, 10 cards. :(
I am not very good at combining. It sort of hurts my head but sometimes I can. When it fits I do my best to combine the Watercolor Wednesday Challenge with Jeanne's Art Nudge on FB. Many of the daily challenges here at SCS can easily be combined and I admire the artists who do it!
So new week, let's see what happens!
Our Featured Stamper is Deb (djahner). She has a lovely gallery! Let's shower her with love!
My question will be taken from the first challenge. Have you used embossing powder in the last week? If so what kind did you use. Feel free to link the card if you have posted it in the gallery!
Let's use today's challenge for a conversation starter!
Do you like to embellish? Do you have a favorite embellishment?
My new favorite embellishment is sequins! I love that they don't add extra weight to my cards. I have really fallen for the Picket Fence Studios Sequins. I am on the team and they probably get tired of me saying, "the ____ is my favorite mix". I tend to have a new favorite each month.
Angie, in answer to your question about embellishing - I love to embellish. My favourites are the stick-on gemstones, pearls, etc. I used pearls on the card I made for the WT challenge. I like sequins in theory but always have trouble with figuring out where to place them. Any hints or suggestions?
__________________ Susan
My SCS gallery is here should you care to look! Or please visit my blog, Cardmaker's Garret.
I'm sorry, I've been MIA and don't usually feel like battling with the site bugs to post links.
If Stickles or Liquid Pearls count, they are probably my favourite embellishments. As I mentioned on the WT thread, I love the look of buttons but they are bulky fur mailing and most of my cards go international, so that's a factor. Also with buttons, I usually stitch them on so u know they are not likely to come off. I've received enough cards with a couple of loose sequins to know that that's a hazard with them - though you can always see where they were originally, and stick them back
And Lyn's TLC was a fun one, to create your own stencil and then stamp through it. I made a very random card last night in order to scratch an itch to use my raccoon, but I'm planning on a more focussed attempt later in the week when I have more time.
Sorry if the spacing is a bit off - it's a challenge to get two links formatting and the spacing right. Roll on the new upgrade on the 26th (hopefully).
and the engineers are doing the walk through to do the build for the fiber line at my house on Monday. ( we are on a waiting list but, the big hope is to have it all installed and up and running before Christmas)
(everyone and their mama needs real internet this year.
The Teapot Challenge is headed to each other and the challenge is to make a card that represents how you have felt this year.
OH! I really want to play in the Teapot Challenge, don't you? The hostess even says that there is no wrong way to make this card. You might have gotten good news this year!
I am so curious, what comes to your mind when you think of a card that represents how you have felt this year?
What immediately jumped to mind for me was the color blue. I have struggled with feeling blue this year. The next thing that came to mind was a reckless collage because I have felt like a jumbled mess of anxiety. Lastly, a serene scene. I have gotten more rest this year. I have found that I REALLY like NOT having to force myself to do certain social outings. Some of my feelings don't even go together! That pretty much sums up 2020 for me.
Angie, I can't wait to see what you've come up with for the Teapot challenge! I love reading about everyone's feelings and experiences this past year! It helps to know that we're not alone! Hugs!
__________________ Judy aka Gracie "Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud." Maya Angelou
Good for Halloween cards but she has a couple of technique ideas too, and also the suggestion that you could use a particular technique, stamp or supply that "spooks" you. That was the motivation I needed to finally produce something with my Lift Ink that I was prepared to upload. Yay! Every attempt I've made over the last two years has been recycled into something else - at least that's one easy thing with alcohol inks on Yupo.
I really hope to get to this challenge today! Thanks for the reminder Sabrina and your cards are beautiful!!! Thanks to Jayne for taking time to create this fun WTUI challenge!
__________________ Judy aka Gracie "Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud." Maya Angelou
Polly's MIX challenge is to create a card using complimentary colours on the tertiary colour wheel. I want to make a Christmas card with green and red, but I broke my usual colour mould and created something else first.As my dad used to teach photography in night school for many years, I confess I am better at colour theory in light rather than pigments.
So glad you were able to link some challenges last week Sabrina!
So sorry to drop off the face of the earth last week! I am still trying to juggle my husband's new hours and the 25% more time at home he has! He seems to be home ALWAYS these days and I love hanging out with him or he has me running somewhere! So here goes starting with today's challenges.
It's a little chilly here but the sun is shining brightly on this Monday. I hope the sun is shining in your heart as you start out another week of 2020.
Angie, juggling the husband is always a task. Mine works at home, but he is in our bedroom much of the time. Today was a meeting that was supposed to last 45 minutes and went 2 hours and 15 min! He is not a happy man. He left the bedroom so I could dress and shower, then when I went back downstairs I could hear the same voice talking. The meeting continued.
I hope to find time to play with the challenges either the daily ones or a fallifest one. I like the shadow ones.
I started the two watercolor ones last night after work and then, by the time I was finished cooking dinner and they should have been dry. ( it was dark) so, I am at two under construction and two being thought about.
You are ahead of me, Stacy! I'm hoping to get to play. So much busier now that school has started and we are back to home schooling. I thought I retired that hat!
